Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Open Source
WinLAME audio converter gets a 2009 (minor) makeover
by Brad Linder Apr 18th 2009 at 10:00AM
But the most exciting thing is just seeing that this application is still under active development. I've been using winLAME for years, and this is the first update I can remember in a long time. Not that the program needed much updating. The latest versions did an excellent job of converting audio to and from MP3, OGG, WAV, or WMA.
Because winLAME 2009 is still in beta, you'll want to be careful before selecting the option to automatically delete files after converting them. The developer warns that it's still possible the beta includes bugs that could reduce audio quality.
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Aalaap Ghag said 1:18PM on 4-19-2009
Even I've been using WinLAME for years and I was kinda sad that there wasn't a new version out, but I never really felt left out because, as you said, the old version did everything I needed a LAME front-end to do.
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dinoel86 said 4:48PM on 4-20-2009
Try xrecode instead. Probably the best audio recode freeware app there is.
Stuart Halliday said 12:53PM on 4-20-2009
Thanks dinoel, Xrecode is pretty good.
Though for wav to mp3 I just use a lame.exe cmd line script set to 192Kbps in my Sendto menu option.
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